Artist Profile

Jack Vettriano

Born in Scotland in 1951, Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer in the local coalfields. For his twenty-first birthday a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. The local, Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, with its renowned collection of 19th and 20th century Scottish paintings, was inspirational.